Simon is a systems researcher passionate about virtualization and Unikernels. He's been at NEC Labs for the past 8 years and has expertise in operating systems, virtualization, and networking. In addition, he is the lead maintainer of Unikraft, a Xen incubation project. Simon received his diploma degree in computer science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at the University of Liege.